I like to have fun. I'm also a bit of the crazy one. All my friends are boys. I was bullied a lot by girls in school. There was also too much drama and demands.

We come from a very humble background. A lot of my paycheck from 'Skins' went to paying the bills and getting us a new sofa.

I am quite proud that I managed to prove that you don't have to be able to afford drama school or have the right connections to do well.

I would have loved the opportunity to have gone to drama school, but it just didn't work out for me; there are always several paths, and there's a reason why I've been down this path.

I was very hesitant about doing a period film. It was very much out of my comfort zone; I'd never done anything like that before.

As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.

Everyone asks, 'What's your goal? Do you want to win an Oscar? Do you want to work with Meryl Streep?' No! I want to buy my mum a house. I want to make her proud.

It's nice to know that a studio is willing to put a female in a film without expecting the character to have a love interest.

It was hard to go into the world and start auditioning as real actors. Having to pay bills was rather scary, too.

I'm a Londoner, so I'm a bit feisty.

I'm not the best auditioner.

I don't think there is enough youth employment or enough push for youths to kind of do want they want to do.

I love my job every day. So whether it's for four years or for two weeks, it's still... And when you're working on a set, it feels like a family straight away.

A lot of my friends back home are boys, so I do well with boys I like.

On 'Skins,' we only ever filmed for a couple of months in the summer. When I wasn't on set, I was doing my normal things.

I consider myself a Londoner first, and then I consider myself Brazilian before I consider myself English.

I wasn't good at anything very much at school, but I did like drama.

My mother is amazing. She moved from Surrey to London, taught herself English, and found a job.

I'm not good at dressing up. I always feel a bit out of place. It's just not me - high heels and designer dresses - and I can't seem to get used to it.

It's important to enjoy the moment.

My friends still see me as the girl they went to school with. We're very much home bunnies.

'Skins' has been such a great thing for our generation - I don't want it to become a parody of itself.

I do have a lot of respect for the girls in 'Hollyoaks.' It takes a lot of effort to look like that constantly. I couldn't do it.

The best part about doing 'Wuthering Heights' was you were completely in that world. It could not have been done with CGI. You had to be there.